HBO's eight-part monthly series recalls the places, the people and the events relevant to eight major strands in America's cultural and social fabric -- cowboys, radio, transportation, sex, journalism, sports, inventions and advertising -- via newsreel clips, period music, theatrical movie sequences, and on-location shootings. Host Dick Cavett steps in and out of historic scenes in this follow-up to his earlier HBO series entitled Time Was.
Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J....
Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominen...
"Once upon a time ... the Americas" tells us the story of this vast continent, from the very first i...
An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls b...
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our...
What does the Ground Zero flag from 9/11 have in common with the original Wright Brothers flying mac...
From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global...
Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the ...
This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial...
Examines six moments when the collision and collusions of Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson,...
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connecte...
In keeping with the original project, this series seeks to reframe the country's history by placing ...
A panoramic overview of the events and people that shaped six of the most important years in America...
A half century look back at a year marked by the assassinations of MLK and RFK, a contentious presid...
Sex: The Revolution was a four-part 2008 American documentary miniseries that aired on VH1 and The S...
Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: Americ...
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has ...
John Green teaches you the history of the United States of America in 47 episodes!